Research Highlights | Earth & Environmental Systems Modeling

Project: PCMDI – An Earth System Model Evaluation Project

Title		Contact	Institution
Mechanisms of Global Drought Intensification in the 21st Century	RGMA	Jesse Norris	University of California Los Angeles (UCLA)
Increasing Volatility of Precipitation Around the Globe	RGMA	Jesse Norris	University of California Los Angeles (UCLA)
Reconciling Model-Satellite Differences in Tropical Atmospheric Warming	RGMA	Dr. Stephen Klein	Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) - Program for Climate Model Diagnosis & Intercomparison (PCMDI)
Aerosols Must be Included in Climate Risk Assessments	RGMA	Geeta Persad	University of Texas at Austin
Quantification of Human Contribution to Soil Moisture-Based Terrestrial Aridity	RGMA	Jiafu Mao	Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Robust Anthropogenic Signal Identified in the Seasonal Cycle of Tropospheric Temperature	RGMA	Stephen Po-Chedley	Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL)
Detailing Cloud Property Feedbacks With a Regime-Based Decomposition	RGMA	Mark Zelinka	Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL)
Evaluating Uncertainty in Aerosol Forcing of Tropical Precipitation Shifts	RGMA	Celine Bonfils	Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL)
Correcting Numeric Parameters in Microphysics Scheme Improved WRF Performance	RGMA	Jiwoo Lee	Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL)
El Niño and La Niña Events in Central Pacific are a Good Proxy for Future Global Precipitation Increase	RGMA	Jesse Norris	University of California Los Angeles (UCLA)
Comparison of Climate Model Large Ensembles With Observations in the Arctic Using Simple Neural Networks	RGMA	Elizabeth A. Barnes	Colorado State University
Benchmarking Simulated Precipitation Variability Amplitude across Timescales	RGMA	Min-Seop Ahn	Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL)
Predicting Slowdowns in Decadal Climate Warming Trends With Explainable Neural Networks	RGMA	Elizabeth A. Barnes	Colorado State University
Constraining the Increased Frequency of Global Precipitation Extremes Under Warming	RGMA	Chad Thackeray	University of California Los Angeles (UCLA)
Superior Daily and Sub-Daily Precipitation Statistics for Intense and Long-Lived Storms in Global Storm-Resolving Models	RGMA	Hsi-Yen Ma	Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL)
Speeding up Detection of Climate Response to Emission Reductions	RGMA	Mark Zelinka	Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL)
Estimate Coupled Cloud Feedbacks from Inexpensive Short-Term Atmosphere-Only Simulations	RGMA	Stephen Klein	Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL)
Evaluating Climate Models’ Cloud Feedbacks Against Expert Judgment	RGMA	Stephen Klein	Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL)
Interpreting Modeled Oceans Across CMIP Eras and the Latest Observations	RGMA	Paul J. Durack	Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL)
Estimate Ensemble Size for Robust ENSO Evaluation in Climate Models	RGMA	Jiwoo Lee	Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL)
Learning to Correct Climate Projection Biases	RGMA	Hsi-Yen Ma	Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL)
Robust evaluation of ENSO in climate models: How many ensemble members are needed?	RGMA	David Bader	Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL)
On the Emergence of Human IInfluence on Surface Air Temperature Changes Over India	RGMA	Celine Bonfils	Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL)
Causes of Polar Amplification in Earth System Models	RGMA	Mark Zelinka	Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL)
Projected Changes to Hydroclimate Seasonality in the Continental United States	RGMA	Kate Marvel	NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS)
The Convective-To-Total Precipitation Ratio and the “Drizzling” Bias in Climate Models	RGMA	Di Chen	University of California Los Angeles (UCLA)
Anthropogenic Influence on Extreme Precipitation Over Global Land Areas Seen in Multiple Observational Datasets	RGMA	Gavin D. Madakumbura	University of California Los Angeles (UCLA)
Satellites may Underestimate Warming in the Troposphere	RGMA	Benjamin Santer	Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL)
What are the Possible Causes of Wet-Season Dry Biases over Amazonia?	RGMA	Hsi-Yen Ma	Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL)
Performance Changes in Extratropical Modes of Variability Across CMIP Generations	RGMA	Jiwoo Lee	Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL)

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